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KalvaChomer

I dont know if the Journal pays for this type of column, but if they do they should consider it wasted money. Jules Witcover, and most other liberal columnists, do nothng but parrot the talking points of their side with no indication that they have thought through issues and are able to provide convincing, or at least, reasonable arguments. This reminds me of the same type of people Plato often had to deal with 2500 years ago when he said "Wise men speak because they have something to say - fools because they have to say something." This columnist is, I presume, making a living on saying nothing. Doing nothing but repeating old tired and discredited liberal BS.

KalvaChomer

Even if such fools got their wish and banned all future sales of the dubiously named assault weapons and high capacity magazines, how would that alone prevent the next Adam Lanza from getting his hands on an existing set of equipment and repeating Newtown, or worse ? It wouldn't, but someone like Witcover obviously cannot reason that out for himself. However, it is no accident. It is exactly what the gun-control mentality seeks. The next Newtown will just be their justification to go farther. I won't blame Witcover himelf for holding that motive. I dont believe he is smart enough to be that clever. Such ideas come from the "true believer". Witcover is at best a fellow traveler, and at worse a mere useful idiot.

KalvaChomer

"For too long, the NRA has used its scare tactics and its money to intimidate spineless members of Congress, and to herd pliable gun owners into going along."

For too long, such fools as Jules Witcover have held out and supported idiotic soluions to problems of their own making simply to achieve ideological goals, and they have herded the gullible masses into going along.

What kind of mind regards the statement "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.", as anything other than sound advice and truth, when the response in every one of these shootings by those most affected, the victims, is to call for police to come with guns.